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Dear Glenn Beck: Leave MLK out of the NRA

Blair L.M. Kelley
OPINION - The NRA, which has been in the spotlight since the brutal murders in Newtown, Connecticut, seems to be redoubling efforts to resist any legislation regulating the use or sale of firearms...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., attends a news conference in Birmingham, Ala. May 9, 1963. (AP Photo/files)

Never before heard audio from MLK released

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Freedom Struggle and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail speech at Canaan Baptist Church on May 2...
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Actors Jon Hamm, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica Pare, January Jones, John Slattery, and Vincent Kartheiser attend The Paley Center for Media presentation of 'Mad Men' season 5 at The Paley Center for Media on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

'Mad Men' recreates the day MLK died

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theGRIO REPORT - 'Mad Men', the critically acclaimed AMC drama series about advertising executives in the 1960s, recreated an incredibly historic moment in the civil rights struggle on tonight's episode...
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'Letter from Birmingham Jail' at 50

Mashaun D. Simon
theGRIO REPORT - King’s letter reflected the religious challenges of his time, addressing the crisis of Christian faith for southern Christians at the time...
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Revisiting MLK's death 45 years later

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - Two years after their re-discovery, restored video footage of Dr. King’s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, in custody in Memphis as well as on trial, have been released just in time for the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder. ..
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MLK thank-you letter to officer for sale

Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A dealer of rare historic documents is selling a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to a Philadelphia police officer who was assigned to protect him...
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In this March 28, 1968 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead a march on behalf of striking Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers. Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed supporting a historic sanitation workers strike in Memphis, the city’s garbage and trash collectors are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Sam Melhorn, File)

Decades after MLK's death, Memphis jobs at risk

Adrian Sainz, Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis' garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company...
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President Barack Obama places a stone on the grave of Yitzhak and Keah Rabin during a visit to Mount Herzl on March 22, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. ((Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO via Getty Images.)

Obama lays MLK memorial stone on Israeli grave

Ian Johnston, NBCNews
NBCNews - Barack Obama on Friday laid a stone from the grounds of the Washington memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the grave of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister assassinated by a Jewish extremist enraged by his efforts to make peace with Palestinians...
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American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) speaks at a press conference for Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, held at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City, January 12, 1968. He announced the Poor People's March On Washington at this event. (Photo by John Goodwin/Getty Images)

The stabbing of MLK: New documentary delves into Izola Curry mystery

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - A new documentary delves into the mystery surrounding the woman who almost fatally stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ten years before his death...
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In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, President Kennedy stands with a group of leaders of the March on Washington at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

JFK's complex place in black history

Jesse Washington, Associated Press
(AP) - Not that many years ago, three portraits hung in thousands of African-American homes, a visual tribute to men who had helped black people navigate the long journey to equality...
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